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Indian Thieves See a Gold Mine in Exams for Government Jobs
In a country where government jobs are highly coveted, the tests that govern hiring are a lucrative target for criminal gangs.
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Daniel Khalife, UK Prison Escapee, Is Convicted of Spying for Iran
Daniel Khalife also pleaded guilty to an escape from a London jail, strapped underneath a truck with a sling made of trousers, that embarrassed the British authorities.
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Hiker Survives 50 Days in Canadian Wilderness
Sam Benastick was found after weeks missing in British Columbia’s frigid Redfern-Keily Provincial Park, and after the official search was called off. The police had feared “this would not be the outcome,” a spokeswoman said.
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Celebrating the Art Movement That Wasn’t
“Harmony & Dissonance” is a nervy, mood-lifting, masterpiece-studded show that offers an in-depth look at Orphism, which is famous for being unknown.
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Peter Doig Finds the Soul and Menace of a Modernist Gem
The artist organizes a show of seldom-seen paintings at Gagosian to cast a fresh eye on Balthus’s enigmatic 1933 tableau, “The Street.”
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After Five Generations, a Family Gave Back the Treasures in its Closet
The descendants of a 19th-century federal official decided to return a prized collection of heirlooms to a descendant of a Lakota leader, Chief Spotted Tail.
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Colman Domingo Propels Phenomenally Entertaining “The Madness”
Netflix waited until Thanksgiving to drop its best original series since “Ripley” earlier this year, a very different kind of thriller featuring another magnetic performance from the incredible Colman Domingo. A cleverly modern riff on “The Fugitive,” “The Madness” is a show about a TV journalist who has been a part of our increasingly insane…
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Footprints Suggest Different Human Relatives Lived Alongside One Another
A discovery in northern Kenya hints that two extinct species that were our ancient relatives shared the same habitat and possibly interacted.
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A Fossil Gets Its Name From the Eastern Shoshone Language
After scientists found an extinct burrowing amphibian on Eastern Shoshone land, members of the tribe gave it a name in their language.
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Psychedelic Traces Found on Mug From Ancient Egypt
Egyptians may have used hallucinogenic substances as part of a fertility rite, researchers said.